Healthy Volunteers in Canada Paid to Be Infected With Influenza in Government-Funded Research
A new study registered with ClinicalTrials.gov is deliberately exposing healthy adults to a live influenza A(H3N2) virus in Canada. Health Canada’s Biologic and Radiopharmaceutical Drugs Directorate has approved the H3N2 challenge strain for use in humans specifically for the purposes of the study. The study is not evaluating a vaccine or other biologic, rather it’s […]
Genetics May Predispose Susceptibility to COVID
It is generally accepted that COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is caused by an infection with the virus SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). The virus enters human cells via a protein coding gene known as ACE2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2). It is also largely accepted that COVID can affect different people in different ways, […]